{"id":9275,"date":"2023-05-03T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=9275"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:33:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:33:28","slug":"do-i-have-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9275","title":{"rendered":"Do I have TB?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi.<\/p>\n<p>Please talk to your doctor or clinic about the weight loss. This isn&#8217;t something we can diagnose online. Your doctor will will be able to see how much weight you have lost and over what time.<\/p>\n<p>They can also talk about other things in your life that could cause this.<\/p>\n<p>Please also talk about the cough. This is important.<\/p>\n<p>If these are symptoms of TB, or another infection, the doctor can make sure you get the right treatment. The only way to get a diagnosis and treatment is to talk to your doctor about this.<\/p>\n<h2>Further info<\/h2>\n<p>TB and HIV coinfection (from the i-Base training manual)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/5-ois-and-coinfections\/7-tuberculosis-tb\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/5-ois-and-coinfections\/7-tuberculosis-tb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK (BHIVA) guidelines on HIV and TB coinfection.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/TB-guidelines\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/TB-guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This answer was updated in May 2023 from a question from August 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I&#8217;m taking my ARVs and suddenly I started to loose weight.<\/p>\n<p>Is this because I am not taking my meds for preventing TB?<\/p>\n<p>I have a cough that sometimes gives out sputum now and then, so should I be worried that I might have TB maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,49,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-south-africa","category-tb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21726,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions\/21726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}